While I've not highlighted frameworks and such recently, when Brian Lagunas reached out to me about today's news I knew I had today's post. I've used Prism myself in a couple WPF LOB app's and found it pretty darn cool and useful. If you're building complex applications, with multiple team members…

Today's project is one that I've been following years and have used a number of times. It helps you solve what has started to become an issue, MAX_PATH... While NTFS supports folder paths up to 32K long, Windows and .NET have yet to expose that, instead keeping with the legacy MAX_PATH length, 260…

This is a recording of .NET Internals from February, 25th 2015. In this session we focused on our open source efforts: [0:00] Welcome back to .NET Foundations[2:06] Where is our open source code?[7:25] Reference Source[10:47] What have team members been working on?[16:00] Onboarding demo[21:18]…

This is a recording of .NET Internals from March, 4th 2015. In this session, we're focusing on .NET Core and cross-platform. Please join us and listen to what Matt Ellis has to say. [0:00] Intro[1:07] What are we doing, why are we doing it?[1:56] Previous cross-platform .NET efforts[5:15] What are…

This is a recording of .NET Internals from March, 11th 2015. In this session, we're focusing on ASP.NET 5 and DNX, the new cross-platform .NET execution environment. The talk is given by Eilon Lipton, a development manager on the ASP.NET team. [0:00] Intro[1:50] What problems are ASP.NET v5 trying…

Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just unfamiliar. Over the past year Lucian Wischik has been watching how people use async/await in C# and VB. This series distils out the three top async patterns and anti-patterns, and top three tips for writing your own async libraries.…